Mediagazer: Judge halts movie industry-backed probe against Google (Jeff John Roberts/Gigaom)

10:25 PM ET, March 2, 2015

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Bill O'Reilly's Own Video From Falklands Protest Contradicts His “War Zone” Claim — He has said he saw civilians massacred in Buenos Aires. The report he filed at the time said nothing of the sort. — Throughout the controversy set off by a recent Mother Jones article …

Discussion: TVNewser, @clarajeffery, Mediaite, @nickbaumann, @jeremyschulman, @katz, @keitholbermann, @davidcorndc, Business Insider and NY Daily News

Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Fox: O'Reilly Didn't See Bombings In Ireland, But He Saw Photos Of Them

Discussion: Gawker and Raw Story

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
The O'Reilly tapes: Phone recordings raise new questions about JFK story

Discussion: Pressthink, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, @beychok and @brucebartlett

Jamil Smith / The New Republic:

News organizations shouldn't just promise to “cover race”; they should dedicate a beat to it — Working on the Race Beat — The future of racial coverage at The New York Times and elsewhere — In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times …

Discussion: @jamilsmith, @keldyortiz, @justinnxt, @johnmcquaid, @chrisgeidner, @loisbeckett and @jamilahlemieux

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Former NYC mayor candidate and supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis may be negotiating to buy New York Daily News — John Catsimatidis is mystery man behind Daily News sale — Maverick supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis is said to be the mystery suitor negotiating to buy the embattled Daily News from Mort Zuckerman.

Discussion: New York Times, Page Six, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Judge halts movie industry-backed probe against Google — A federal judge has agreed to put the brakes on an investigation into Google by Mississippi Attorney General, Jim Hood, after the company complained that Hood's inquiry was an illegal censorship campaign cooked up by Hollywood.

Discussion: The Wrap, Northeast Mississippi …, Wall Street Journal, Variety, The Verge and Techdirt

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Yahoo TV Converts to Tumblr-Based Digital Magazine Format — Yahoo's TV news and reviews section has adopted the company's “digital magazine” format, a visually oriented design based on the Tumblr mico-blogging website. — The new Yahoo TV digital magazine is the 11th title in the format …

Discussion: VentureBeat and Tubefilter

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

Netflix will launch in New Zealand and Australia on March 24 — Netflix is announcing that its video streaming services will become available in New Zealand and Australia on March 24, 2015. — The service will be available on smart televisions made by Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Philips …

Discussion: Netflix, Variety, ZDNet, mUmBRELLA and The Next Web

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Uber launches a quarterly print magazine, Momentum, for drivers in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Ohio, and Oklahoma — Uber just launched a quarterly print magazine, Momentum — Here's something different. — Uber, the $41 billion ride hailing company …

Discussion: Uber Blog, Fast Company, Slate, Wired, SlashGear and Gigaom

Niall Kennedy / The Twitter Blog:

Embed Twitter-hosted video on your website — With the new embedded video widget, you can highlight Twitter-hosted video on your website, enhanced by the same JavaScript used to render Tweet buttons and embedded Tweets. — Video embeds are available for videos captured …

Discussion: Mashable, The Verge, SocialTimes, Tubefilter, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube and Turner Sports partner to offer March Madness college basketball highlights — YouTube to Showcase March Madness Highlights — YouTube wants in on the madness. — The Web video powerhouse has seen Twitter strike deals to showcase both National Football League …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, NCAA.com, Variety and Tubefilter

Tumblr Staff:

Tumblr metrics on #TheDress: 73M pageviews on original post, 140K pageviews per minute between 10:30-11:30 p.m. Thursday night — Remember last Thursday, when a single slip of fabric covered up the whole internet? Here's a few stats about exactly how much and how quickly that dress blew up.

Discussion: CNNMoney

John Plunkett / Guardian:

Russia Today faces inquiry over anti-western comments in Ukraine debate — Media regulator to launch investigation into views expressed during Crosstalk programme on Kremlin-backed broadcaster — Russia Today is to be investigated by media regulator Ofcom over anti-western comments …

Discussion: @stacyherbert, The Intercept, @wolgadeutscher, @miriamelder, World News Publishing Focus …, @maxkeiser and @ggreenwald

Scott Dadich / Wired:

Wired launches redesigned responsive site, web pages now load twice as fast — WELCOME TO THE NEW WIRED — Welcome to the new WIRED. This site is the culmination of more than two years of work by dozens of super-talented people, people I'm proud to have as colleagues.

Discussion: Folio, @marcuswohlsen, @rwd, @lavrusik, @ryantate, @sdadich, FishbowlNY, @davatron5000 and Talking Biz News

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:

The New Republic's investment arm buys part of analytics startup Parse.ly, deal said to be in “mid-six figures” — The New Republic's investment arm buys up a piece of analytics startup Parse.ly — The New Republic's investment arm has made its first move in buying a piece of web analytics firm Parse.ly.

Discussion: @rustyk5, @parsely and @guyvidra